xv, 572 p. : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Machine generated contents note: MYCOPLASMA DIVERSITY AND CELL BIOLOGY -- 1. Taxonomy of Mollicutes -- Karl-Erik Johansson and Bertil Pettersson -- 2. Phylogeny and Evolution -- Jack Maniloff -- 3. Mycoplasmas of Humans -- Alain Blanchard and Cecile M. B6b6ar -- 4. Mycoplasmas of Animals -- Joachim Frey -- 5. Mycoplasmas of Plants and Insects -- Erich Seemiiller, Monique Garier, and Berd Schneider -- 6. Cell Division -- Makoto Miyata -- 7. The Cell Membrane and Transport -- Ake Wieslander and Maria Ros6n -- 8. Central Carbohydrate Pathways: Metabolic Flexibility and -- the Extra Role of Some "Housekeeping" Enzymes -- J.Dennis Pollack -- 9. Database Systems for the Analysis of Biochemical Pathways -- Isabel Rojas-Mujica and Erich Borberg-Bauer -- MOLECULAR GENETICS -- 10. Mycoplasmas and the Minimal Genome Concept -- Clyde A. Hutchison III and Michael G. Montague -- 11. Comparative Genome Analysis of the Mollicutes -- Thomas Dandekar, Berend Snel, Steffen Schmidt, Warren -- Lathe, Mikita Suyama, Martijn Huynen, and Peer Bork -- 12. Transcriptome and Proteome Analysis of Mollicutes -- January Weiner 3d, Carl-Ulrich Zimmermann, Barbara Ueberle -- and Richard Herrmann -- 13. DNA Replication, Repair and Stress Response -- Nianxiang Zou and Kevin Dybvig -- 14. Transcription and Translation -- Akira Muto and Chisato Ushida -- 15. Extrachromosomal Elements and Gene Transfer -- Joel Renaudin -- 16. Restriction-Modification Systems and Chromosomal -- Rearrangements in Mycoplasmas -- Ramakrishnan Sitaraman and Kevin Dybvig -- PATHOGENESIS -- 17. Invasion of Mycoplasmas into and Fusion with Host Cells -- Shlomo Rottem -- 18. Apoptotic, Antiapoptotic, Clastogenic and Oncogenic Effects -- Shyh-Ching Lo -- 19. Genetic Mechanisms of Surface Variation -- David Yogev, Glenn F. Browning and Kim S. Wise -- 20. Immunomodulation by Mycoplasmas: Artifacts,Facts and Active -- Molecules -- Peter F. Muhlradt -- 21. Mycoplasma arthritidis Pathogenicity: -- Membranes, MAM and MAV1 -- Leigh R. Washbur and Barry C. Cole -- 22. Cytadherence and the Cytoskeleton -- Mitchell F. Balish and Duncan C. Krause -- 23. Mycoplasma pneumoniae Disease Manifestations and -- Epidemiology -- Enno Jacobs -- 24. Diagnosis of Mycoplasmal Infections -- Shmuel Razin -- 25. Antimycoplasmal Agents -- Cecile M. Bebear and Christiane B6b6ar

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